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- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 1 week ago:
Bowtie
- Comment on Sony is working on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 movies 1 week ago:
I think both of these could be great movies, but could also be done extremely poorly (especially helldivers). I hope they get people who like and understand the IPs for these ones.
- Comment on Fallout creator asks why triple-A RPGs focus on violence, doesn't provide very hopeful answer 2 weeks ago:
Humans are space orks. We like da fighty tings.
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 weeks ago:
Damn that sounds good! I love hole in the wall places like that. I miss my old favorite spot in Seattle, 206 Burger Company. It wasn’t the fanciest or super over the top, but they just hit right and they (at least used to) have pretty good prices too.
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 weeks ago:
It would be interesting to have a poll by country about what people think a burger is.
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 weeks ago:
It’s interesting reading responses on this because I’m gathering a lot of Europeans/non-americans think that burgers are always fast food?
When an american thinks of a good burger I think most of us are picturing our favorite bar and grill’s burger, not a chain fast food one.
Are burgers pretty much only at fast food chains in other countries?
- Comment on How long does it take for Jade Fragments to respawn? 5 weeks ago:
You might know this already, but if you run out on one character you can switch characters and get more again (up to that cap the other person mentioned). If you get the portal tome and put it in a shared inventory slot it makes it a breeze to switch.
- Comment on [Rant] Mount Balrior Raid Expert is the worst that could happen to raiding 1 month ago:
It’s the classic achievement trap. Any time you put achievements into a group space, it causes distortions to gameplay patterns as people try and get the achievement over the main objective of the encounter. This one sounds pretty bad, though. It definitely seems poorly thought out.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 1 month ago:
Things like apkmirror are doing god’s work as far as I’m concerned. No problems with them at all.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 1 month ago:
I was really shocked at the speed of it. Very surreal experience.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 1 month ago:
Totally agreed on that. Sorry didn’t mean to derail the thread. I just thought someone might be interested to know about the automated stuff.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 1 month ago:
Sounds believable. We definitely didn’t download it so I couldn’t say for sure.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 1 month ago:
I learned when I released an unsuccessful mobile game a couple years ago that there are apparently automated piracy sites out there. I say that because we found a seemingly hacked version of the game on some sketchy app sites just a week after releasing it (and nobody knew about our game, so I highly doubt it was done by hand).
- Comment on Gentlemen, it's with a great pleasure I inform you that Do Not Press The Button has hit 7000 wishlists 1 month ago:
As a fellow spare time dev who dreams of having that much success, I feel your pain, and also want to wish you a heartfelt congratulations. That’s a massive achievement! I hope you have success with it whenever you launch. 👏
- Comment on Issues with the current free to play model (The Bazaar) 2 months ago:
Oh I see. Sorry for the off-topic response then!
It’s a shame that multiplayer games really struggle with paid models these days. It heavily cut into a player base if things aren’t free to play. That kind of forces all but the biggest releases to turn to other monetization models in order to keep the base game free.
- Comment on Issues with the current free to play model (The Bazaar) 2 months ago:
I think it’s tough with card games because they come from a physical form of lootboxes. Being expensive is kind of baked into their lineage. Collecting cards is a big part of the fun, and if you made it very easy to do I think it’s hard to say whether people would enjoy them as much.
I don’t play any collectible card games anymore because I don’t want to pay for it anymore, but there is something very entertaining about the model even if it’s easy to argue it’s a scummy business model by today’s standards.
I haven’t looked into this game beyond your description, but it does sound like a pretty weird model. Do you also have to pay for cards on top of that?
I remember kind of disliking the arena system in hearthstone because I liked the game mode a lot, but as a casual player it was really hard to get to play it much. I guess they wanted to keep people from spending all their time there since you didn’t need to buy cards to play. I much preferred magic arena’s drafts where you pay an upfront cost but get to keep all the cards you played with. Much more accessible for casual players and more satisfying, too, since you always get something out of it.
- Comment on Calculatable 2 months ago:
You mean CE doesnt stand for “clear everything”? And here I thought more letters meant more clearing.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Clumsy, Preachy Political Messaging Does More Harm Than Good 2 months ago:
This article perfectly sums up the issues with this way of writing. Unfortunately people often don’t acknowledge the nuance there, and will jump down this reviewer’s throat for the take I imagine.
It’s icing on the cake that apparently there was even an in-lore term for something like a trans character of this species that they didn’t use. That makes it seem like they didn’t even study their own lore well enough. Never what you want to be thinking about a writing team. 🫤
- Comment on Seeking input on .io ccTLD removal 2 months ago:
Programmers in shambles
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Congrats on the release!
- Comment on Yeah but the one accessory she usually removed was the little swastika pin. 2 months ago:
One per email is all you get!
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 2 months ago:
My god they’re hideous!
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 months ago:
There’s a sort of… Sheen, to a lot AI images. Obviously you can prompt this away if you know what you’re doing, but its developing a bit of a look to my eye when people don’t do that.
- Comment on Castlevania to get official stage adaptation by Japan's all-female Takarazuka Revue 2 months ago:
Can’t wait to see the third act where alucard gets stun locked by gold Medusa heads in the clocktower
- Comment on GORILLA GORILLA 2 months ago:
tap a face to tag
- Comment on Portal 2 project lead wants Valve to return to single-player games 2 months ago:
Same
- Comment on Monke 2 months ago:
What kind of dog is that?
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 2 months ago:
Wait, are you telling me marvel isn’t thought through all the way?
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 2 months ago:
It has a long way to go but it’s a good start. The community is very homogenous right now (maybe excluding some of the mainly politically focused servers). It’s predominantly male tech people right now and it shows in what is active and the general vibes of discussions. My hope is not only for more niche communities to grow, but also for a lot more diversity of interests and of people in general. We need more women’s voices on here for sure. I miss that diversity from reddit. Things have been steadily, if slowly, growing so far from what I can tell, so hopefully over time all this will improve.
- Comment on The internet, every October 2 months ago:
North A-scare-ica (I’m sorry)